Khaled Kelkal

Khaled Kelkal (28 April 1971-29 September 1995) was an Armed Islamic Group terrorist involved in the 1995 Paris Metro and RER bombings during the Algerian Civil War.

Biography
Khaled Kelkal was born on 28 April 1971 in Mostaganem, Algeria, and when he was an infant his family move to a suburb of Lyon, France. While in prison for robbery, he was radicalized by Khelif, an Islamist who fled to France to avoid trial. After being released from prison, Kelkal began to regularly attend the Bilal Mosque in the Vaulx-en-Velin suburb of Lyon, and in 1993 he headed to Mostaganem in Algeria to visit family. While there, he joined Djamel Zitouni's Armed Islamic Group, and on 11 July 1995 he assassinted moderate imam Sahraoui in Paris. He also oversaw a series of bombings in France, and on 29 September 1995 he was located at La Maison Blanche in Lyon. The gendarmes shot him in the leg, and when he raised his gun, they finished him off.